Indiana TCPA and telemarketing law
Indiana has its own telemarketing statute with a private right of action.
| Statute | Ind. Code § 24-4.7; Ind. Code § 24-5-14 | ↗ |
| Consent standard | Prior express consent | ↗ |
| Stricter than federal | Not yet verified | |
| Private right of action | Yes | ↗ |
| Statutory damages | Not yet verified | |
| Covers text messages | Yes | ↗ |
| Cure period | Not yet verified |
Indiana regulates telemarketing through two laws. Its do-not-call article bars telephone solicitors from making sales calls to numbers on the state's quarterly no-call listing, requires callers to give their name and the business they represent, and, since a 2024 amendment, treats text, picture and multimedia messages as telephone sales calls. A separate chapter on automatic dialing-announcing devices allows recorded or synthesized voice messages only if the subscriber has agreed to receive them or a live operator first gets consent, and bars those commercial calls before 9 a.m. or after 8 p.m.
Enforcement belongs mainly to the attorney general, who can seek civil penalties of up to $10,000 for a first violation and $25,000 for each later one. A consumer can ask a court to stop autodialer violations, but the state's consumer sales damages remedy expressly does not apply to these telemarketing laws.